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Birthday #42
Today is my birthday. 42.
The age my mom was when I graduated high school. I remember thinking anyone over the age was 30 was practically terminal and certainly no longer sexually active, which my father continued to remind me of until the very end.
5 Breaths
This idea of self care is all the rage, isn’t it? I get it, I hesitated to borrow it myself, and still, the more I contemplated what self care really means, how the science says it works, and why it helps with mental health, wholeness, and happiness – I was nerdy for it.
Any intervention that is simple, sustainable, and best yet, free – I’m down for it.
Celebrate all Varieties of Dads
This is the third year we’ve celebrated father’s day without one of my dads. I am honored and supported by the love of three other dads in my life – my husband from my youth, my dad from my birth, and my papa from the Hedrick side – I still desperately miss my the dad from the Overton House on the River. Sometimes I even wallow in it.
I wish so badly and sometimes curse very loudly that it hadn’t happened to us, but it has, and so, what am I/should we do about it. My dad used to always tell me, you have two choices, Kristi. And he was right, as always, he was right –
* get older or don’t
* be kind or be a butt
* heal that or hurt
* go through it or get stuck
* make meaning or feel mundane
* practice self care or …
Those are my additions at the end there.
Mental Health Awareness Month
As my fantastic web designer and developer – Digitally Distilled – and I were pulling ExOr together, I discovered that May is Mental Health Awareness month. Delightful, I thought. Another reason to explore Mental Health Matters. Sad, I contemplated, that I hadn’t known that already.